Thursday, October 12, 2006

Distortions

As we've seen in the previous chapter, the simple logic of human development can be left as it is, thus implying that in a normal healthy environment, with proper raising circumstances and proper morals fed into the heads of the infant, a human could grow into those three stages in serial form, one after the other, till he reaches the normal "Us" stage, which obligates a man to start working for a better society. However, this is an idealistic perspective in the eyes of many.

Now could we have a look upon what really happens?

Hamada is a teenager. Hamada wants to eat. So everyone works for the food of Hamada. Hamada is at school. Hamada wants to succeed (or in other words, Mom and Dad want him to succeed) so Hamada is injected with education into his brain. We can encourage Hamada to succeed by any means necessary…Now Hamada has done many things without any "Me" stage will power out of his poor head.

Hamada wants to go to college (by the way, Hamada never said anything, because by now Hamada doesn't know what he really wants), so Hamada got so and so percent at school, so Hamada must go into so and so college…Now we take a big PAUSE.

Look at Hamada now. Do you think he has passed with the healthy and necessary "Me" stage of his being? And if not, when do you think he will pass by the "Me" period? And the most dangerous question of it all... When do you think Hamada will seize to be a "Me" person?

Another example here, Hamada is a teenager. Hamada can do many wrong things... “LOCK up Hamada... Hamada, you shall obey every word Mom and Dad says without thinking, Hamada the world is BAD... Hamada have no "Me" inside of you...” And the wheel turns on.

Now look ahead... and look back... Hamada is a Dad, and Mosheera is a Mom... And now there are other Hamada's and Mosheera's in our society. Divorces start to manifest. Inconsistencies, selfishness becomes the plague of every new home built by very late "Me's". There is no "Us" anymore… A generation doing wrong, poisoning the next generation... and the cycle just continues...

In the next post we take a look into the side effects of those transformations with more detailed examples.

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